Originally published at The Catholic Thing
During his recent trip to Belgium at the end of September, Pope Francis announced plans to start a beatification for the country’s late King Baudouin, a devout Catholic who once resigned the throne for a day rather than sign a law legalizing abortion. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised a red flag about a “hasty beatification,” on the grounds that there are still questions about Baudouin’s role in the assassination of independent Congo’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961.
